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Issue Details: First known date: 1887... 1887 Australian Poetry
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'...we think that, on the whole, every appreciative and sensitive reader will at once admit that there is unquestionably true poetry in this book; that there is much originality - ...and that there are many poems of rare and touching beauty. And it may also be said that the poems are racy of the soil. It is not verse which may be written without reference to country or climate, or the occupations of the people, or the peculiarities of character springing from these - verse which might appear in the poet's corner of any journal anywhere, and which would take hold of any reader. It is on the contrary peculiarly Australian. It is in this respect alone perhaps as striking as anything that has been written in or of this country...'

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    y separately published work icon The Sydney Mail 29 January 1887 Z1238766 1887 newspaper issue 1887 pg. 215
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